Long-range dispersal and high-latitude environments influence the population structure of a "stress-tolerant" dinoflagellate endosymbiont

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Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Pettay, D Tye ^a,b   LaJeunesse, Todd C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LARVA; LATITUDE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POCILLOPORA; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SYMBIODINIUM GLYNNI NOMEN NUDUM; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LIGHT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84892401059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079208     Document Type: Article

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